Former Cleartrip executive Wishy Arora was hired as the VP-Products and Suraj Panigrahy, formerly the CEO and co-founder of 69 Seconds was appointed as the VP-Sales & Merchant acquisition.OUR BUREAU | September 03, 2015, 13:06 IST

Former Cleartrip executive Wishy Arora was hired as the VP-Products and Suraj Panigrahy, formerly the CEO and co-founder of 69 Seconds was appointed as the VP-Sales & Merchant acquisition.Bangalore: Little, the app-only marketplace in the online to offline space, announced the appointment of two senior level management positions in a press release sent by the company today.

Former Cleartrip executive Wishy Arora was hired as the VP-Products and Suraj Panigrahy, formerly the CEO and co-founder of 69 Seconds was appointed as the VP-Sales & Merchant acquisition.

"We are excited to welcome Suraj and Wishy onboard. Wishy comes with the fabulous experience of building a much admired mobile product at Cleartrip and Suraj brings to Little, considerable experience in working with large technology businesses and hands-on retail knowhow with his QSR venture," said Manish Chopra, CEO and co-founder of Little.

A senior product manager at Cleartrip and the IIM Lucknow alumnus, Arora will be overseeing accessibility of consumers to most relevant deals.

Panigrahy, having formerly worked with companies like Wipro, Hexaware and NTT Data, will work to bring in merchants in the consumer lifestyle space on Little.

Newly started Little received a funding of $50 million led by Paytm, SAIF Partners and Tiger Global Management among other investors. Founded by Manish Chopra and Satish Mani, it offers deals from over 5000 merchants and hopes to expand its base to offer over 50,000 live deals across 11 cities by March 2016.